Centaur 411 Amp

[Chuck (Jack) Hawley]

Ed Tanton wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry Chuck... I think concern over a 12 hour drift of well under 100
> hz for voice communications is absurd.  Flame away.

No flames. You're right. I just happened to want 3 hertz.

> >Good luck. It's really difficult to deal with these well meaning, nice
> >people when they just don't have the same technical rules and standards
> >that you have. Although I'm sure that your reduced output on the higher
> >bands is below their standards, I am reminded of the guys I know who
> >tried in vain to like the Omni 5's and 6's that drifted or jumped 30,
> >50, or 80 hertz from night to night on 75 Meter phone. It's not that
> >important.....but darn it...it's frustrating when you spend a couple of
> >hours to get it really close and then it's off again the next night. The
> >factory thinks you're nuts to be nit picking like this....so eventually
> >these guys drifted back to rice boxes that always end up at the same +/-
> >3 hertz every night. Now we can do that in this country and it shouldn't
> >matter why we want it.....the rest of the world seems to think it's
> >important enough to do it and is willing to sell us expensive tcxo's.
> >Now I know I'm going to hear a bunch of stuff about phase noise and
> >crystal controlled oscillators....can't we do it with more stability?
> >...even though it doesn't matter? I guess not....not with voltage
> >controlled capacitors pulling the crystals and microprocessors
> >correcting the master oscillator at least.
> >
> >I really want to say some more about my brain damaged TT auto tuner but
> >it's discontinued and nobody seems to know anything about it, so I won't
> >mention it.

By the way, the tuner is not for sale. It works great for the most part,
better than anything on the market...just needs a little finagling.

Chuck, KE9UW


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